{"title":"Robert Longo","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eRobert Longo is one of the most important artists of American postmodernism. In the 1980s, he became a central protagonist of the \"Pictures Generation,\" one of the most influential American art movements to this day. With his labor-intensive, large-format charcoal drawings, he attempts to slow down the consumption of images that stream towards us daily on screens.\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe edition \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUntitled (Bullet Hole in Window, January 7, 2015)\u003c\/strong\u003e, 2024\u003c\/em\u003e was published exclusively by \u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(148, 178, 200); text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/edition-hatjecantz.com\/products\/werk-53790\" title=\"Robert Longo | Edition Hatje Cantz\" style=\"color: rgb(148, 178, 200); text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eEdition \u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/edition-hatjecantz.com\/products\/werk-53790\" title=\"Robert Longo | Edition Hatje Cantz\" style=\"color: rgb(148, 178, 200); text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eHatje Cantz\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"17561-robert-longo","title":"Robert Longo","description":"\u003cSPAN lang=EN-GB style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: SuperGroteskB-RgLF\"\u003e\n\u003cP class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none\"\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-GB style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: SuperGroteskB-RgLF\"\u003eSTAND was a site-specific installation, which in 2012 activated the architecture of the Capitain Petzel gallery in Berlin. The building was shrouded with an enormous depiction of the American flag in black and white. Upon entering the gallery, the viewer was confronted with a large charcoal drawing, upon which the exterior of the gallery was based. This was flanked by two drawings: one depicting a claustrophobic mass of Occupy Wall Street protesters; the other, a lone American soldier walking towards an uncertain and ominous future. With the consent of the artist, Robert Longo also updated the style and content of Hans Haackes \u003cI style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\"\u003eOelgemaelde, Hommage à Marcel Broodthaers \u003c\/I\u003e(1982). \u003cSPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/SPAN\u003efor the exhibition, replacing Ronald Reagan opposite a large-scale image of a protest over the deployment of American missiles in Bonn, Germany, with President Obama opposite Tea Party protesters. The rest of the gallery held a group of 25 drawings, a performance based around a complete reading of the classic American novel \u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003cI\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-GB style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: PrimusTB-RegularItalic\"\u003eMoby Dick \u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003c\/I\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-GB style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: PrimusTB-RegularItalic; mso-bidi-font-style: italic\"\u003ealso\u003cI\u003e \u003c\/I\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-GB style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: SuperGroteskB-RgLF\"\u003etook place. \u003c?xml:namespace prefix = \"o\" ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003c\/P\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\n","brand":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45526190981384,"sku":"9783775738149","price":20.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8948\/8049\/files\/odoo_9783775738149_0eb8ba46-3adb-4f0e-9a63-438bf73ee8ed.jpg?v=1744130634"},{"product_id":"17850-robert-longo","title":"Robert Longo","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"A4\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: \u0026quot;Calibri\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;sans-serif\u0026quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"A4\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: \u0026quot;TheSansOsF Plain\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;sans-serif\u0026quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US\"\u003eThis catalogue focuses on Robert Longo\u0026rsquo;s recent series of charcoal drawings of well-known \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"FONT-FAMILY: \u0026quot;TheSansOsF Plain\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;sans-serif\u0026quot;; BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-US\"\u003eAbstract Expressionist paintings. Rendered in charcoal, the original paintings are immediately recognizable, but it is the overlooked or imperceptible details of the complex surface, the tactility of the paint, the brushstrokes and the pattern of the canvas that Longo has made visible in his translation from color to black-and-white, paint to charcoal. Exploring his ambivalence toward painting, Longo\u0026#39;s drawings address the historical magnitude of Abstract Expressionism in art historical and cultural contexts.\u003c!--?xml:namespace prefix = \"o\" ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/--\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45526259597576,"sku":"9783775741071","price":48.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8948\/8049\/files\/odoo_9783775741071_218b4466-f9d7-4a11-bb01-b202b2835845.jpg?v=1744130621"},{"product_id":"16965-robert-longo","title":"Robert Longo","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; mso-ansi-language: EN-US\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial\"\u003eThe enormous, photorealistic charcoal drawings by American artist Robert Longo (*1953 in Brooklyn, New York) show the beauty and horror of the present day and age. His large-format works contrast the innocence of sleeping toddlers, the tranquil grandiosity of Earth and the planets, roses in bloom, and Gothic cathedrals with threatening images of atom bomb explosions, fighter pilots, monster waves, sharks, and the muzzles of revolvers. Inexorably and seismographically precise, the winner of the 2005 Goslar Kaiserring and 2010 inductee into the French Order of Arts and Letters records the state of our world. Longo\u0026rsquo;s powerful motifs give form and expression to the feelings of fear and longing felt by people in the twenty-first century, and affect the viewer with the full force of the medium.\u003c!--?xml:namespace prefix = \"o\" ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/--\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; mso-ansi-language: EN-US\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial\"\u003eThis large-format, elaborately designed book, printed on natural paper using a tritone process, bound in half cloth and distributed\u0026nbsp;in four different cover designs, has been created in close collaboration with the artist and affords a comprehensive overview of his charcoal drawings from the past decade.\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; mso-ansi-language: EN-US\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial\"\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; mso-ansi-language: EN-US\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial\"\u003eExhibition schedule: Kunsthalle Weishaupt, Ulm, November 28, 2010\u0026ndash;September 25, 2011\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49563472462088,"sku":"9783775731966","price":88.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8948\/8049\/files\/odoo_9783775731966_b04aa69b-a19c-4377-a446-80472789692b.jpg?v=1744130628"},{"product_id":"66285-robert-longo-charcoal-volume-2","title":"Robert Longo: Charcoal Volume 2","description":"Charcoal Volume 2 presents the impressive charcoal drawings of American artist Robert Longo. The large-format, elaborately designed catalog picks up where the first volume left off and brings together works from 2012 to the present day. Together, they form a comprehensive compendium of the series, which is central to the oeuvre of the legendary New York artist. \u003cbr\u003eEssays by Tim Griffin and Haley Mellin explain the context of the existential questions of our time, which are at the heart of Longo's new, large-format, hyperrealistic drawings. With light and shadow, he masterfully creates impressive depth and unexpected dimensions in his artistic engagement with war, violence, the climate crisis, the effects of capitalism and consumer culture, the increasing polarization of American society, forms of political protest, and the possibilities of individual freedom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eROBERT LONGO (b. 1953, Brooklyn) is one of the most influential artists of American postmodernism. In the 1980s, he became one of the central protagonists of the so-called Pictures Generation, one of the most influential American art movements to date. What characterized this loose grouping of artists including Cindy Sherman, Barbara Kruger, Louise Lawler, David Salle, Richard Prince, Jack Goldstein, and Sherrie Levine, despite the diversity of their individual positions, was their appropriation, restaging, and recontextualization of existing images. Longo lives and works in New York.","brand":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49811902726408,"sku":"9783775756617","price":98.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8948\/8049\/files\/odoo_9783775756617_e72f45d4-aa50-40c4-9a1e-cfb6396fb1fa.jpg?v=1744289538"},{"product_id":"67473-robert-longo-the-acceleration-of-history","title":"Robert Longo: The Acceleration of History","description":"Robert Longo is widely known for his highly detailed and hyperrealistic charcoal drawings, which reflect the construction of symbols of power. He explores the effects of living in an image-saturated culture – how we filter, process, and retain the images we are confronted with daily. This catalog is published in conjunction with the exhibition Robert Longo: The Acceleration of History at the Milwaukee Art Museum and focuses on Longo's work from the last ten years, which was created as an immediate response to current global events, and which is here placed, among other things, in the context of historical painting.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRobert Longo (b. 1953) is a New York-based artist, filmmaker, and musician. He is considered a central representative of the American \"Pictures Generation,\" which in the 1980s exposed stereotypes of visual culture through appropriation and montage and criticized the mediation of wars and an exaggerated cult of history. With his labor-intensive, large-format charcoal drawings, Longo attempts to slow down the consumption of images that stream towards us daily on screens and which the artist describes as an \"iconoclasm.\"","brand":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","offers":[{"title":"Book (978-3-7757-5803-1)","offer_id":45643334091016,"sku":"9783775758031","price":48.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8948\/8049\/files\/odoo_9783775758031.jpg?v=1754468328"}],"url":"https:\/\/hatjecantz.de\/en\/collections\/robert-longo.oembed","provider":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","version":"1.0","type":"link"}